The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite - Softcover
Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of the Sephardic elite--an insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons.
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Stephen Birmingham is a preeminent social historian, known for his books The Right People, Real Lace, and The Grandees. He allows his reader unparalleled access to the most exclusive society sets, and tells their stories with great warmth and wit.
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[A] page turner . . . [that] offers a little bit of the best of everything . . . One zippy read . (The New York Times)
A rags-to-riches saga with several twists and switchbacks . . . Clever and satisfying. (Booklist)
When it comes to the folkways of the rich, the powerful, and the privileged, Stephen Birmingham knows what he’s talking about. (Los Angeles Times)
A rags-to-riches saga with several twists and switchbacks . . . Clever and satisfying. (Booklist)
When it comes to the folkways of the rich, the powerful, and the privileged, Stephen Birmingham knows what he’s talking about. (Los Angeles Times)
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- PublisherLyons Press
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 149302468X
- ISBN 13 9781493024681
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tracing their origins to medieval Portugal and Spain, the Sephardic Jews consider themselves the nobility of Jewry, in contrast to their pushier and more aggressive German counterparts. They were also the first Jews to inhabit the new worldfirst exiled from Spain and Portugal, and then forced out of Brazil, a ship bearing 23 Sephardic Jews was blown off its course to Holland, beset by pirates, and then captured by a French captain before being ransomed for the payment of their freight in the City of New Amsterdam. And so the American Sephardic Jewish story begins.Here Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of this insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons. We find tales of fortunes made in the fur trade long before the Astors, revolutionary heroes and heroines, and poetic spinster Rebecca Gratz, thought to be Scotts model for Rebecca in Ivanhoe. Through it all emerges a picture of a proud haughty people, who have chosen to remain aloof from the later-arriving Jews from Europe, and have staunchly refused to be swept up in the movement of Reform Judaism, preferring to adhere to their Orthodox rituals. Stephen Birmingham weaves a vibrant tapestry of the Sephardic experience in America, working in threads of their history in medieval Europe as he depicts the lives of these extraordinary Americans. Stephen Birmingham tells the rich and varied history of the Sephardic elite--an insular group of bewilderingly interrelated families, spiced with gossip and the gentle rattling of family skeletons. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781493024681
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